As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).

After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.

Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Short-Shorts for Saturday... Saturday, August 20

I headed off to the Can Fit Pro show in Toronto today. I was very hesitant to go because of my mom's condition, well that and the fact that I didn't really want to go alone. But I went alone anyways and good call on that because I met so many people, learned so many things about different products and training info, and had so much fun!!!

I wore one of my UP Boxing Club shirts to represent and good call on that too. Scored some free stuff because of it!

My friends joke and say that my pores must give off the smell of kimchi because it seems every where I go I am always approached by Koreans, today was no differ. A small group of university kids approached me, they spoke very little English so we chatted for a bit.
Meeting up with Sang Il was a sweet highlight of my day. He's a professional fitness trainer who ended up do a live interview with me in Korean. The big highlight for us both, I'm sure we'd both agree on this, was meeting Richard Simmons. Richard was hosting a live exercise show for any and all to participate in so Sang Il and I both took our shot at participating and making fools out of ourselves for the sake of having a good time.
Totally wasn't expecting Richard Simmons to ask to kiss my belly button though... hahaha.

Sang Il was much braver than me, daring to go on stage not once but twice and then busting a move on Richard... oh gosh. It was hilarious!!!

I had anticipated meeting Tosca Reno but with the massive line that was sure to cause an hour or two wait and I didn't have the time. I only had about half a day to myself before I was due back at the hospital so I stuck to taking her picture and checking out some of her new books.

I did in fact however get to meet Tosca's husband, Robert Kennedy. He publishes my beloved Oxygen Magazine, a fitness magazine for women that I absolutely love!

2 comments:

Snark-a-tussin said...

I love that you met Richard Simmons! Also, I love that he and I share a similar looking outfit! Ha!

권투선수 에이미 [Amy] said...

Hello Snark-a-tussin...wow, what a name!
Ya, it was pretty cool to say the least. I would have loved to have met Tosca but she's a busy lady and I wasn't about to wait an hour for her to sign a book I left in Korea.